Rajashtan state-level policy for rights of Women and Children living and affected by HIV

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Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Rajasthan Network of People living with HIV (RNP+) in partnership with IMPACT is

implementing a project for ensuring specific rights of women living with HIV and

children affected by HIV. As a part of this work, we have prepared a draft

towards a state-level policy for Rajasthan. We plan to advocate with the

Government of Rajasthan to ratify and implement it.

RNP+ and IMPACT has conducted a series of activities to collect information to

feed into the policy. The background work included community consultations and

focused groups discussions, socio-economic and health assessment, and policy and

legal environment analysis.

Based on the findings of these activities, we constituted a group of experts

from relevant fields to come together and prepare the draft. The 12-page draft

“Towards a Policy for Women Living with HIV and Children Affected by HIV in

Rajasthan†is available at

ftp://ftp.solutionexchange.net.in/public/aids/resource/res10111001.pdf (PDF,

Size: 384 KB).

We invite members of Solution Exchange to share their inputs and suggestions on

the draft. We would like you to give particular attention to the following four

sections of the draft document:

1. Reaffirming the existing policy provisions

2. Suggesting additional provisions

3. Strengthening of existing policy provisions

4. Implementation and monitoring

In addition, please give your valuable comments on the overall content and

language used in the draft within the framework of a Human Rights Based

Approach.

We intend to present the modified draft to the Government of Rajasthan on 1

December 2010 - World AIDS Day. Your contributions would be highly useful in

improving the draft.

Thanking You and with Regards,

Brijesh Dubey, RNP+, Rajasthan,

and

Smriti Verma, IMPACT, New Delhi.

Rajasthan Network for People Living With HIV/AIDS

64, Mahadev Nagar, Chittrakoot,

Vaishali Nagar, Jaipur-302021 (Rajasthan)

Phone: 0141- 2353469, 4030861

Fax : 0141- 2353469